Philosophy Musings Quotes & Sayings

Ambition soars and also slithers — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless. — Albert Camus

Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life. — Jay Woodman

Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers' conceptual structure together. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

More often than not- Life moves really fast! It's only for you to pause and breathe! Sadly, none else can do that for you! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
-rassool jibraeel snyman — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? — Aysha Taryam

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct ... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible. — Martin Cohen

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates? Since factory farming is tougher on pigs than it is on philosophers I'll take a chance. — Jeanette Winterson

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business — Martin Cohen

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge. — Kilroy J. Oldster

If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate. — R.D. Ronald

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

Nietzsche said we will never rid ourselves of God because we have too much faith in grammar/language.

Lacan said because of the religious tenets of language, religion will triumph.

Chomsky, master linguist, says 'there are no skeptics. You can discuss it in a philosophy seminar but no human being can - in fact - be a skeptic.'

These musings shed light on Soren K's leap to faith idea. This is more nuanced than the circular leap of faith argument he's been wrongly accused of...

Soren is saying that, as we use the logic of language to express existence and purpose, we will always leap TO faith in a superior, all encompassing, loving force that guides our lives.

This faith does not negate our reason. It simply implies that the reasoning of this superior force is superior to our own. Edwin Abbott crystalizes this in Flatland. — Chester Elijah Branch